GLEN FORD—Community control of the police is a project in democracy and Black self-determination, while defunding the police – inevitably, in practice – is an immersion in Democratic Party budgetary dickering that legitimizes the imposition of the police upon the people. It will suck the righteous energy out of the movement, while failing to transform any power relationships of importance.
Default Editor Patrice de Bergeracpas
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CAITLIN JOHNSTONE—There are no moderate, mainstream centrists anywhere in the tight alliance of nations which function as a single empire on foreign policy, because that functional empire is built upon murder, terrorism, exploitation, oppression, ecocide and the stockpiling of armageddon weapons. People who support the status quo of this empire are called “moderates”, but, just like the so-called “moderate rebels” of Syria, they are in fact violent extremists.
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Whitney Webb Discusses FBI Arrest Of Ghislaine Maxwell
3 minutes readGraham talks with Whitney Webb about the arrest of Jeffrey Epstein’s accomplice.
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Caleb Maupin on the current crisis, US politics, the future of socialism in China, what real socialism is, and more
5 minutes readCaleb Maupin chats with Oscar of Marxist Think Tank (UK). This is a typically lucid, wide-ranging discussion of topics everyone should understand. Caleb is an outspoken advocate of international friendship and cooperation, as well 21st Century Socialism.
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The Anglo-American Empire and hence its vassals are at war with China. This is not a cold war. It is a very hot one. It is being fought on all continents and with every conceivable weapon. The imperial propaganda apparatus (80% of the world’s mass media, including the unacknowledged control over the Internet — which after all runs on US servers everywhere except in China) — has focused on the narrow issue of “trade war” between the US (reduced to Trump) and China. This is a significant distortion of the facts. With substantial US manufacturing assets in China and China as holder of some 20% of outstanding US government debt, intellectual property and dumping prices — in US markets — are trivial points. Nonetheless these are the kinds of points that fill the pages or broadcast minutes of the media consumed by the “educated classes” in the West.